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Unhappy Beginnings

Isabel Gonzlez-Daz Fabin Orn-Llarena

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  • 190 sidor
  • 2023
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmeds rereading of happiness, other authors such as Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Lauren Berlant, or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films, memoirs, and novels that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show, unhappiness, precarity, vulnerability, or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happinesswhatever that means.
  • Författare: Isabel Gonzlez-Daz, Fabin Orn-Llarena
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781032526591
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 190
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-12-22
  • Förlag: Routledge